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1 Mar 2009

Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights - The impact of UK-based mining companies on the Philippines, particularly focusing on the right to food

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In 2009, the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights conducted an inquiry on business and human rights.  Below are materials related to the inquiry.  For the Committee’s final report, and commentaries on it, click here.

All submissions received by the Joint Committee:

Written evidence received by the Committee as of 21 May 2009 [PDF]

Call for Evidence:

Call for Evidence, 6 March 2009 [PDF]

Audios, videos of hearings:

Amnesty International, Action Aid, CORE Coalition, and Sepna Malik, Leigh & Day Solicitors; Trades Union Congress and Institute of Employment Rights, 9 June

Associated British Foods, BP, Confed. of British Industry, Rio Tinto, Tesco, 30 June

Submissions:

If an individual or organization has made a submission and would like us to post it here please let us know [email protected]

ActionAid [DOC], 30 Apr

Amnesty UK, 1 May

Anti-Slavery [DOC], 1 May

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre [PDF], 25 Feb

Business for Social Responsibility [PDF], 1 May

Business in the Community [PDF], 1 May

Chandler, Sir Geoffrey [DOC], 21 Apr

Cockayne, James [DOC], 4 May

Colombia Solidarity Campaign, regarding Mandé Norte/Murindó mining project, 23 Apr
      - Responses by Muriel Mining, Rio Tinto

Confederation of British Industry [DOC], May

Corner House [PDF], May

Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition [PDF], 1 May

Danish Institute of Human Rights, Human Rights & Business Project [DOC], Jun 2009

Drakos, Maassarani, Radon [PDF], 1 May

Drive Up Standards [DOC], 1 May

      - We invited National Express to respond but it did not do so

EarthRights International [PDF], 1 May

Global Witness [PDF], 5 May

Hermer, Richard QC, Doughty Street Chambers [DOC], 30 Apr

Institute for Human Rights & Business [DOC], 30 Apr

International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) [PDF], 1 May

Kinley, Professor David, University of Sydney [DOC], 30 Apr

Leigh Day & Co [PDF], 30 Apr

Meyersfeld, Bonita [DOC], 1 May

Oxfam GB [DOC], 1 May

Rights & Accountability in Development (RAID) [DOC], 6 May

Survival International, 30 Apr

Synergy Global Consulting [PDF], 1 May

van Dam, Professor Cees [PDF], May

Vigeo [PDF], 28 Apr

War on Want, 7 May

Working Group on Mining in the Philippines, 30 Apr

Company Responses

National Express

No Response

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